Posts by Allegra Swift
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UC San Diego Student Journal Receives Gold EPIC Award in Publishing
Congratulations to the Challenger Research Journal at University of California San Diego, winner of the “Excellence in Student Journals – Research” Gold Award at the 2026 EPIC Awards Ceremony in Chula Vista, California, as part of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) 48th Annual Meeting. Editors-in-Chief Meghana Hariprasad, Johnny Tran, Leanne Liaw, and Publishing Coordinator Sofia Ruiz-Murphy were recognized for their contributions to the undergraduate journal, which is published by the University of California’s eScholarship Publishing program. Challenger Research Journal began as a paper series within the eScholarship Repository, offering an academic publishing training ground for students within the UC […]
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Reputation managment: your identity, your story
Unless you are a CIA operative or completely off the grid, you are very likely to have some sort of digital footprint beyond your published articles and departmental faculty profile. This can be a good thing if, for example, you are: entering the job market or looking for collaborators in interdisciplinary research; applying for a major research grant; hoping the media will call you for an expert opinion in your field of study; trying to reach the public and/or policy makers who are misunderstanding (and defunding) the research being done in your field. Having a digital presence beyond your formal […]
